Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-06
WISCONSIN, LEGISLATUREc.


MADISON, March 2S.-The senate killed
about twenty five or thirty bills, OF which
| the following are some OF the most impor-
tant: Requiring municipal authorities to
prohibit the sale OF liquor to any person
| convicted OF Drunkenness twice within ore
year; Mr.. Conklins bill to prevent unjust
discrimination by common carriers; chang
ing the dates OF holding terms OF circuit
court In the Fifth circuit; for the severe
punishment OF persons keeping opium
joints; making it misdemeanOr for any
| officer to extort by bribery, cruelty, or
otherwise, confessions from q prisoner.
MADISON, March 29.-The vote by which
| concurrence was refused the bill to legalize
| the acts OF the town board OF supervisors
in the town of Sparta, Monroe County, was
reconsideEed and the bill was amended and
| concurred IN. Bills were passed amending
| the charter OF the city OF Menomonie, and
a bill relating to the bonding OF Forest
| County. Assembly bills were concurred in:
| To amend the revised statutes of 1876,
relating to the survival Of actions; permit
ting party to q suit at law to obtain
change OF place of trial on account OF preju-
dice OF the judge. The bill relating to the
publication OF the supreme court reports
was indefinitely postponed.
MADISON, March 3O.-The following bills
were passed: Exempting public library a.
sociations from taxation on their proper
ty; giving the principal contractor in the
construction OF piece OF work a lien upon
such work till he has received his pay for
the same; that whenever the Wisconsin
Veterans Home, an institution incorpor-
ated by the Gre nd Army of the Republic of
this State, for the purpose OF founding
home for destitute soldiers and sailors and
their widows, who are residents OF this State
shall have been established and put in
operation to the satisfaction Of the Gov
fha ~ TOT
# So week for each such inmate of said
home shall be paid to said Wisconsin Vet
Grams Home quarterly; for tie suppress.
sion of vagabondage. The memorial to
Congress asking for the establishment Of
postal savings bank was adopted. As
s5mbly bills were adopted: Appropriating
S1OO to the Wisconsin Wool Growers and
Sheep Breeders Association for printing
| purposes, and 500 each to the Central
| Wisconsin Wool-Growers' and Sheep
Breeders, Columbia County Wool.Grow-
ers and Sou heastern Wisconsin Wool.
Growers and Sheep Breeders associations.
| At the evenings session the bill to require
| railroad companies to furnish passes to
| legislators, elective state officers and judges
of court record was killed by vote of %
| to i.
| MADISON, March Ex-Governor Fusk
notified the Senate OF his appointment OF
DR.. w. w. Reed OF Jefferson, as q member
of the state board OF charities and reform,
for the term OF five years, beginning April
| /, 1887. Confirmed. A bill was passed
relating to the national union and as
sembly bills were concurred i: Requiring
auctioneers to pay to the town treasurer
20 per cent. Of the gross receipts accruing
| for their SALES, except at mortgage or execu-
ton sales; appointing third assistant
! chief OF the Milwaukee fire department at
| 81, 500 year, an operator of fire alarm
| telegraph at $500 per year, and giving
! drivers 5000 per year after the second
years service; exempting from the pro-
visions OF the revised statutes, relating to
| lands sold fox taxes, such land as was sold or
| described in the tax certificate or tax deed
not liable to taxation, or where the taxes
on such lands have been paid or the lands
| redeemed according to law, or where the
deed is absolutely void.
MADISON, April BILLS passed Repeal
| ing the laws of 1885 by which q person
making improvements on any lot had
lien on the entire real property. Assembly
| bills concurred in: Providing that the mar.
riage of any female under guardianship
| shall terminate the guardians right to her
custody and education only; but that the
! county judge shall, at his option, demand
! of the guardian settlement of the estate
Of the ward; submitting to the
people constitutional amendment plac
ing the superv sion of schools in the charge
of the state superintendent and such other
officers as the legislature may direct; pun
ishing by q maximum fine OF $10O, or inn
prisonment OF SIX months, or both, any in
reference with persons who are engaged in
| work, by persons who attempt to force the
employees OF others from work; prohibiting
insurance and other corporations of the
kind from doing any business until $780,
900 OF their stock has been subscribed
e. hoe sA-I
or invested Granting the power
| to assess and collect taxes to
all villages not existing under special char
ter. The bill prohibiting persons interior
ing with other persons in lawful work and
preventing them from working, carried in
the senate this morning, was reconsidered
and referred to the judiciary committeefor
perfection.
/ Assembly.
MADISON, March 29-In the Assembly
the following Senate bills were concurred
in: Relating to the service of notice on the
owners Of land through which it is desired
to lay out highway. The following
bills we're passed: Requiring the
sealing of envelopes containing ballots
after election with mucilage and sealing
wax in the manner in which packages of
currency are sealed when sent by express,
and requiring the inspectors to endorse
their names on the envelopes in open meet
ing; providing that in all actions hereto
tore or hereafter commenced, brought by
any town against d village for the recovery
of any license money paid to said village for
the sale of malt, ardent or Intoxicating
liquors therein, where said village has ap
propriated and used said license moneys
for the support of the poor therein, it shall
be lawful for said village to answer the
complaint OF the town, alleging the fact
that the license money so sued for by said
town had been appropriated and used by
the village for the support OF the poor
therein, and proof of the fact will be q full
and perfect defense to said action; provid-
ing that the marriage of any female who is
under guardianship shall terminate the
right and authority OF the guardian as to
the custody and education OF the ward
only, and prohibiting the turning over of
an estate to her, il it be con-
trary to the provisions of the
will bequeathing the estate to her;
providing that any person who shall by
coercion OF any kind prevent a person
from working be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding 800 or by six months imprison-
ment or by both: also making the comb